"I currently work as an Information Architect in a finance company. I have more than 25 years of being Oracle DBA and other database engines. During these years, I have known many tools. Some free and others pay.

For the last year I have used dbForge Studio for Oracle. Interface pleasantly comfortable. Perfect connectivity to new systems as a legacy. Functionality seen as creation of snapshots of schemes and comparison of schemes, plus all the tools required for day to day.

Easy to install and less resource consumption than other tools.

In comparison to the consumption of resources by SQL Developer, it is a mini-compact in consumption, with provisions of a 4x4.

On Monday, a federal appeals court rejected Rimini Street’s motion to stay and effectively delay a permanent injunction issued by the Federal District Court in Nevada. That injunction prohibits Rimini Street from engaging in specific unlawful practices in connection with its core business practices as found in Oracle’s 2015 copyright infringement trial against Rimini Street and its founder, Seth Ravin.

The trial court had determined earlier that the more than $100 million that Rimini Street paid to Oracle in damages following trial was inadequate to fully compensate Oracle for Rimini Street’s copyright infringement, citing “Rimini Street’s conscious disregard for Oracle’s software copyrights” and the fact that Rimini Street’s business model “was built entirely on its infringement of Oracle’s copyrighted software.” The Court ruled that Rimini Street can only provide support for Oracle’s PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards, Siebel, and Database software subject to certain court-mandated restrictions, as set forth in the injunction.

While Rimini Street made public statements suggesting that it can comply with the injunction without changing its business model, it told the federal appeals court a different story in court filings. Rimini Street instead argued that the “injunction goes far beyond the changes that Rimini Street [already] made in response” to the Nevada court’s rulings, and would therefore harm its business. Rimini Street must now comply with all the terms of the injunction while its latest appeal is pending.

“We are grateful that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Rimini Street’s latest attempt to delay justice. The federal courts in this country have appropriately recognized that the only way to stop serial infringers such as Rimini Street is to subject them to detailed, court-ordered prohibitions against unlawful practices and subject them to contempt of court penalties for any breach. Oracle will continue to be unrelenting in its mission to stop the infringement of its intellectual property rights,” said Dorian Daley, Oracle’s Executive Vice President and General Counsel.

lunes, 5 de noviembre de 2018

Elizabethtown Gas and Riverside Public Utilities (RPU) join a growing list of utilities using Oracle Opower Home Energy Reports to educate customers on energy efficiency and related savings. With Oracle Opower, these utilities have the potential to increase savings and engagement for more than 179,000 households.

"We are proud to be working with Riverside Public Utilities and Elizabethtown Gas to enhance their energy efficiency education and drive increased efficiency solutions amongst their customers," said Rodger Smith, SVP and general manager of Oracle Utilities. "Our behavioral Energy Efficiency programs have contributed significant bill savings for consumers, and we continue to innovate to bring our utility customers the best in home energy management solutions."

Since Elizabethtown Gas launched the program in December 2017, participating customer savings continue to trend upward. The utility also implemented Oracle's energy efficiency web portal to provide online tools including bill comparison insights and an online audit.

RPU selected Opower Home Energy Reports to help improve customer experience, increase energy efficiency savings, and drive more digital engagement. The implementation of the Home Energy Reports represents an expanding relationship between RPU and Oracle Utilities. The utility currently utilizes Oracle’s Work and Asset Management solution to manage asset lifecycles, streamline maintenance operations and improve regulatory compliance.

"Working with Oracle, we are now able to deliver new, cutting-edge tools that allow our customers to gain a better understanding of their energy use at home and make educated decisions regarding their electric bill," said RPU account manager, Ryan McManus.

Ranked number one in Navigant Research's Leaderboard report on Home Energy Management systems, Oracle Opower Home Energy Reports provide residential customers personalized feedback and actionable insights about their energy consumption to help motivate them to lower their usage.

Oracle Utilities recently announced that its Opower Home Energy Reports and Energy Efficiency programs achieved a total of $2 billion in utility bill savings for consumers over the past decade and have reached more than 20 TWh in energy savings. The reports include a neighbor comparison, energy usage trends, seasonal disaggregation, and personalized energy saving tips that are powered by an intelligent recommendation engine.

Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle Digital Assistant, enabling companies to build personalized digital assistants to help employees work smarter and more productively. With Oracle Digital Assistant, employees leverage one comprehensive digital assistant that can be trained to support domain skills from multiple applications such as HR, ERP, CRM and CX. Leveraging AI, Oracle Digital Assistant understands context, derives intent, and identifies and learns user behaviors and patterns to automate routine tasks proactively, such as expense approvals and meeting reschedules, on behalf of the user.

Built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Digital Assistant goes well beyond standard chatbots available today that provide simple, single skilled, linear responses. By applying AI for natural language processing (NLP), natural language understanding (NLU) and machine learning (ML), Oracle is in a unique position to leverage its breadth and depth in enterprise applications, and offer a digital assistant that can truly span the enterprise. See Oracle Digital Assistant in action here.

“This is the next evolution of chatbots and a major milestone in delivering a smart digital assistant for the enterprise,” said Suhas Uliyar, vice president of AI, Bots, Mobile, Product Management, Oracle. “Oracle Digital Assistant has the power to transform organizations, helping our customers achieve greater productivity and enriched user experiences.”

Users can converse with the Oracle Digital Assistant via the voice interface but it is platform agnostic and is equally optimized to support popular messaging platforms including Slack, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, and Alexa. Analytics are built-in so businesses can monitor usage to gain real time insights into user behavior and app performance, for continued analysis and improvements.

Industry Accolades

Multiple independent industry analyst reports have recognized Oracle for its multi-channel and digital experience development platforms. Following are some of those reports:

According to Ovum’s Decision Matrix: Selecting an Enterprise Mobile Application Development Platform, 2018-19 report, “Oracle is well placed to take advantage of the MADP marketplace where chatbots are becoming the norm for many customer interactions. Having a chatbot platform powered by AI will be looked upon favorably by both enterprise and SMB clients. Some of the AI technology, such as voice recognition, is now standard from providers such as Apple with Siri and Android with Google Voice, and Oracle seamlessly integrates with these services. Furthermore, Oracle's heritage in the back office means that it will be well placed to help clients integrate the data emanating from the apps into the systems of record.”

Organizations Create Unique Customer Experiences

“With Oracle Digital Assistant, we were able to really improve the guest experience at our Bahia Principe hotels,” said Mateo Ramón Sastre, CIO, Corporativo Grupo Piñero. “The new Guest Service assistant significantly streamlines the experience for visitors and makes their stay more enjoyable. The 24x7 assistant makes it easier to get everything guests need during their stay – beginning with finding availability and booking a room to checking in, ordering room service, and concierge services while at our properties.”

Mutua Madrid Open became the first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and Premier WTA tournament to incorporate an AI-equipped chatbot to improve communication with tennis fans. Implemented with Oracle Cloud Platform, the chatbot, named “MatchBot,” used AI to maintain natural conversations that provided fans with information on the event, players, and results, as well as details on hospitality services, discounts on merchandise, ticket sales, access, and parking.

“We wanted to position the Mutua Madrid Open as the tournament of the 21st century,” said Gerard Tsobanian, president and CEO of Mutua Madrid Open. “Development of the MatchBot positions us at the forefront of technology and innovation. With this new technology, we were able to provide visitors with an amazing experience—a pleasant, simpler, and faster way to get the information they wanted about the tournament.”

“Here in Sant Just, we have implemented a virtual assistant (public officer) available 24 hours a day for citizens. We’ve been very happy with the speed of implementation and the increased engagement with our community,” said Pere Galindo, IT technician, Sant Just Desvern Local Council. “Now with a digital assistant that can answer questions across multiple knowledge domains, the only limit is our imagination.”

Modern supply chains generate millions of data points and thousands of daily transactions that need to be validated and confirmed. This limits the pace of business and exposes organizations to risk. Oracle Blockchain Applications enable customers to track products through the supply chain on a distributed ledger to increase trust in business transactions, get better visibility across a multi-tier supply chain, accelerate product delivery and contract execution, and improve customer satisfaction.

“Consumers are better informed than ever before and are increasingly interested in what is in the products they consume,” said Kyle Bozicevic, owner and brewer at Alpha Acid Brewing in Belmont, California. “We can now track materials and premium ingredients from our suppliers and analyze sensor data from the production process for each batch. Oracle Intelligent Track and Trace blockchain application helps ensure that we are getting the highest quality hops, malt, and yeast, and enables us to create a strong narrative around our products for customers.”

Oracle’s business-ready blockchain applications reduce barriers to adoption of blockchain and provide immediate business benefits to customers by improving trust and transparency in their business network and transforming their supply chains. Oracle Blockchain Applications include:

· Intelligent Track and Trace – Enables end-to-end traceability of goods and transactions in supply chains to reduce delays and automate record keeping. The application creates a digital trail of each step in the business network, during procurement, manufacturing, and transportation. It provides better visibility for easier root-cause analysis and faster dispute resolution. This helps customers execute targeted product recalls, resolve disputes, reduce counterfeits, improve regulatory compliance, and protect against fraud.

· Lot Lineage and Provenance – Enables product genealogy, serialization, and provenance by managing the lifecycle of hierarchical serial numbers, recording origin and authenticity of product components, and tracking all transformations of the product. It helps in regulatory compliance, targeted recalls, and preventing counterfeit components.

These applications are built with Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service, which was launched earlier this year. It helps organizations build blockchain networks to drive more secure and efficient transactions with their trading partners. Oracle’s blockchain platform has experienced tremendous momentum and has been adopted by many global organizations spanning a wide range of industries and verticals including transportation, supply chain and logistics, energy, retail and ecommerce, financial services, telecommunications, and public sector. A few of the many organizations already using Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service include Arab Jordan Investment Bank, CargoSmart, SERES, Certified Origins, Indian Oil, Intelipost, MTO, Neurosoft, Nigeria Customs, Sofbang, Solar Site Design, and TradeFin.

“We are using Oracle Blockchain as our digital platform for shipment documentation, which helps us easily track and trace shipping transactions,” said Lionel Louie, chief commercial officer, CargoSmart. “Our goal is to help bring more trust and transparency into the industry. In fact, we expect a 65 percent reduction in the amount of time required to collect, consolidate, and confirm data from multiple parties. We also hope to streamline data from different documents by leveraging Oracle Intelligent Track and Trace.”

Oracle Blockchain Applications also leverage Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and use embedded artificial intelligence (AI) features to leverage real time data to improve the accuracy of data flowing in a customer’s business network. Oracle develops emerging technologies in unison to provide intelligent recommendations and better user experiences across the SaaS applications for supply chain, finance, human resources and customer experience.

“Many technology companies are offering a blockchain platform for customers to build on, but we wanted to go one step further. We use our domain expertise to create business, user-friendly, domain-specific solutions so customers can get immediate value from blockchain technologies by transforming existing business processes,” said Rick Jewell, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain & Manufacturing Cloud Applications, Oracle. “Oracle Blockchain Applications make it easy for customers to create a trusted network of partners to improve the agility, accuracy, and visibility of their supply chain. These blockchain applications work seamlessly with existing Oracle Cloud Applications and are out-of-the-box ready with pre-built integrations and business network templates for common business processes.”

lunes, 22 de octubre de 2018

Visitors to the Groundbreaker Hub at Oracle Code One will be able to get their hands on the Code Card.

To support and empower the developer community, Oracle Code One will take place alongside Oracle OpenWorld on October 22 to 25 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Oracle’s premier event for developers has expanded to include more languages, technologies and developer communities. Oracle Code One will cover a wide range of topics from AI, blockchain, digital assistants and containers to Java and more languages such as Go, Rust and Python. Registration is still open to all developers and available at oracle.com/code-one.

Oracle Code One features daily keynotes at 5:00 PM in Moscone North’s Hall D. In the Java technical keynote on Monday, October 22, Georges Saab, Vice President of Development at Oracle, will share Java SE updates from the last twelve months including recent enhancements made in the latest Java 11 release. They will also share a glimpse into future projects aimed at accelerating user productivity such as Java in container environments and exploration of new code review options for the JDK. This year’s Duke’s Choice Award winners will also be announced during the keynote.

The Oracle Code One keynote on Tuesday, October 23, will explore topics ranging from managed Kubernetes and serverless functions to blockchain and intelligent digital assistants powered by chatbot technology. The keynote will be presented by Matt Thompson, Vice President of Developer Engagement and Evangelism at Oracle; Amit Zavery, Executive, Vice President of Fusion Middleware and PaaS Development at Oracle; and Siddhartha Agarwal, Group Vice President of Product Management and Strategy for Oracle Cloud Platform. The Code One Meetup at 5:00 PM lets developers not registered for Oracle Code attend the keynote, join a fireside chat with iconic leaders who have made groundbreaking developer innovations and explore evening sessions.

The Java Community Keynote will take place October 24 and feature special guest, James Gosling, creator of Java, together with Stephen Chin, Director of Developer Marketing and Heather VanCura, Director at Oracle and Chair of the Java Community Process, the keynote will also include developer groundbreakers from Canoo Engineering AG, Gluon, IT-Beratung, Snyk.

“As developers look to build increasingly complex cloud native applications, Oracle continues to provide new, innovative capabilities like AI and Machine Learning, blockchain and Kubernetes support for developers to leverage,” said Siddhartha Agarwal, Group Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at Oracle. “Oracle Code One is where developers can engage with Oracle’s technical experts and the larger developer ecosystem to learn how to build the next generation of these applications and services. The event features an unrivalled variety of technical sessions and a community of peers with expertise in the tools, tricks and technologies relevant to building for the cloud. Oracle is engaging with developers wherever they are located around the world to enable innovation via learning resources, developer-focused events, hands on hackfests and free Oracle Cloud Trials to help them get started.”

Throughout Oracle Code One, developers will find more of the Java content they expect with extended workshops, talks, sessions and Hands-on-Labs to explore technologies from Oracle and the broader developer ecosystem, including GraalVM, Oracle JET, the Fn Project, OpenJFX and GraphPipe. Developers at Oracle Code One can also expect unexpected demos based on the latest emerging technologies, from AI to blockchain.

Among this year’s exciting demos, sessions and keynotes, attendees will get to experience:

· The Code Card – With Wi-Fi, buttons and an e-link screen, developers can design their own Code Card IoT device. Visitors to the Groundbreaker Hub at Oracle Code One will be able to get their hands on the Code Card and join a workshop to learn how to program it using Oracle Cloud Functions, serverless technology powered by the Fn Project.

· Demo: Alpha Zero AI Algorithm Connect Four – The Meet the Experts Lounge on Monday, October 22 at 4:00 PM will feature an interactive demonstration of a neural network trained to play Connect Four using the AlphaZero algorithm and deployed using Oracle’s open source GraphPipe.

· Demo: Blockchain Beer – An exclusive demo of how a micro-brewery outcompetes big brands with the blockchain.

· AR Scavenger Hunt Game – Guests in the Developer Lounge can win money for charity by searching for chess pieces with their phone cameras, by downloading a special app. Find the scavenger hunt image and a 3D Java Duke appears on the screen with a quiz on the JavaFX 11 platform. For each correct answer on the scavenger hunt, Oracle will donate money to Iridescent, a science, engineering and technology education nonprofit organization that empowers underrepresented young people to become self-motivated learners, inventors and leaders. A leaderboard in the Oracle Code One Developer Lounge will show the number of players, the number of correct answers and how much money has been raised for Iridescent.

Oracle Code One is also an opportunity for developers to learn about the wide range of open source and open standards which Oracle champions. Since joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation last year, Oracle has continued to advance key serverless and container projects, including announcing new open serverless standard support on its open source Fn Project and critical new features for Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes to address key Kubernetes issues. Oracle also contributed many of its Kubernetes projects to the open source community, including JenkinsX Supported Cloud Provider for OKE, Flexvolume Driver, Volume Provisioner, Cloud Controller Manager and Terraform Kubernetes Installer. These announcements follow last year’s announcement that Oracle open sourced several container utilities. For developers working on machine learning, Oracle recently announced that it open sourced GraphPipe, to simplify how enterprises deploy and query machine learning models from any framework. Earlier this year, Oracle also released GraalVM, a polyglot virtual machine to run Java and JVM languages with full support for JavaScript and Node.JS, plus early support for Ruby, Python, R and LLVM bitcode.

In 2019, Oracle will host over 300 events around the world to connect with and educate developers with workshops, sessions and keynotes featuring prominent experts. To learn more about Oracle Developer Events, please visit: https://developer.oracle.com/events

To accelerate mobile and web application development and deployment, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Visual Builder Cloud, which enables both business users and developers to build applications with little to no coding. Oracle API Platform Cloud provides full lifecycle API management services. Finally, Oracle Integration Cloud now brings pre-built application integration and process automation to the Oracle Cloud Platform, making the deployment and integration of these applications more seamless than ever.

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